The Midlife Crisis of the Network Society

The network society is moving into some sort of middle age, or has at least normalized into the daily set of expectations people have for how they live their lives, not to mention consume news and information. In their adolescence, the technological and temporal affordances that have come with these...

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Main Authors:	Nikki Usher, Matt Carlson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cogitatio 2018-11-01
Series:	Media and Communication
Subjects:	digital journalism fake news hybridity Networks Media participation reflexivity
Online Access:	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1751

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topic	digital journalism fake news hybridity Networks Media participation reflexivity
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The Midlife Crisis of the Network Society

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